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Old 04-10-2011, 01:50 AM   #1
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F14 preupgrade fails reboot - "unknown command" in grub


Hello,

While upgrading from Fedora 13 x86_64 to Fedora 14 x86_64, I got warning dialog which said boot partition didn't have sufficient space to download the image. I say warning because it informed that the install could download it later, but if I was on WIFI, best stop now.

I was on a wired connection, so I selected continue. After downloading all the packages, after reboot, I have 3 Fedora kernels and an Upgrade F14 kernel in my grub menu.lst, but none of them work.

I've looked at the commands and they look reasonable. Unfortunately, I don't have a DVD on this machine (currently trying to make a USB Live-CD)... and I don't see a repair option to drop into a shell - not sure if I can do an ls of the boot drive - I suspect files may have been removed.

Any suggestions? Any bugs on this? I tried searching but didn't find this issue listed.

Thanks in advance for any help.
John
 
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sounds like you have run out of space on /boot. Is there any other distro installed? Have you a floppy? If so, you can boot from

http://www.toms.net/rb

and you can build Tom's linux under linux or under windows. Can you put the harddrive in another box running linux? If so run df -h and see what's going on.
 
Old 04-10-2011, 03:50 PM   #3
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sounds like you have run out of space on /boot. Is there any other distro installed? Have you a floppy? If so, you can boot from

http://www.toms.net/rb

and you can build Tom's linux under linux or under windows. Can you put the harddrive in another box running linux? If so run df -h and see what's going on.
Thanks for the advice and help. I did try both Windows and Linux versions of LiveUSB-Creator and they failed to create a bootable 2GB flash drive - tried Fat, Fat32, Ext4, NTFS, and either syslinux -d failed or the format type was unrecognized.

Since it looks like the IDE is out on my motherboard, I'll wait and spring for a SATA DVD drive and try again with the F14 DVD I burned.

If the /boot partition runs out of space, it would be good not to hose the ability to revert.
 
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Thanks for the advice and help. I did try both Windows and Linux versions of LiveUSB-Creator and they failed to create a bootable 2GB flash drive - tried Fat, Fat32, Ext4, NTFS, and either syslinux -d failed or the format type was unrecognized.
The disk uses minix, IIRC, with some tweak to the floppy measurements to be 1.82 Megs. It's been a long time.

On a usb key, way to go would be make a 3mb(+) partition and a filesystem for the El-To0rito image which is 2.88Mb. Alternatively you may try Kevux (http://kevux.org) which I think goes straight on to usb key. Ignore miost of the (broken) links - you can download kevux there.
 
  


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